Eton

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) A town and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU965775).
2. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of Eton College, a prestigious public school for boys in Eton.
3. (countable, uncountable) A town in Murray County, Georgia, United States.
4. (countable, uncountable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Synonyms

Sale

Bath

🛀

Blackpool

Bradford

England

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Falmouth

Hereford

Ipswich

Leeds

Leicester

Nottingham

Plymouth

Portland

Preston

prime meridian

Reading

Scilly Islands

Sheffield

Sherwood Forest

Shrewsbury

York

Allerton

Holt

Badminton

🏸

Basingstoke

Bedford

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Blackburn

Bournemouth

Buckingham

Canterbury

Chatham

Chichester

Clifton

Doncaster

Folkestone

Glastonbury

Gloucester

Gosport

Gotham

Guildford

Huddersfield

Kingston upon Hull

Ludlow

Maidenhead

Mansfield

Marlborough

Newbury

Northampton

Devonshire

Translations

Eton

eton

انكلترا

انكلترة

إنكلترا

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

إنكلترة

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Anglaterra

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

England

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Eton

Αγγλία

Angleterre

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Eton

Inghilterra

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Albion

Anglia

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈiː.tən/

Etymology

Inherited from Old English: Eatun

In summary

From Old English *Ēatūn, from ea (“river”) + tun (“town”). See also the doublet Eaton.